Rome City High School - Gladiator Yearbook (Rome City, IN)

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the music arranger for his orchestra. He came on over and we had a fine evening discussing old times. Tommy said that lately Mark had composed a few songs in his spare time. After hearing them it was easy to see that they were dedicated to his school day sweetheart, Lorraine Holsinger. Asking Mark about this we learned that he had given up hope of ever getting her after she married Johnny, but he still has his memories. Attracted by the headline HEROIC NURSE SAVES SMALL BOY ' S LIFE , I looked into the subject and here is what I found out: Thelma Morrison, nurse at the Riley Hospital in Indianapolis, had saved a small boy from flames which might have been fatal. Being near Indianapolis I decided to go and see Thelma. During the discussion of her heroism we naturally discussed old times. I learned the surprising fact that an- other member of R. C. H. S. Class of ' 40 was here in the same hospital, Miss Martha Stillinger. Through Martha we learned that she had at- tended college with Betty Gaby, and that Betty was now a high school teacher in the same old school of her high school days. I couldn ' t help but wonder if she had expelled any students for skipping school. A railroad ticket attracted my eye next. I, faintly at first, then more clearly, remembered the trip I had taken back to Rome City to help the residents celebrate Rome City Day. I found that Mr. and Mrs. Neil Mas- ters (Mrs. Masters will be remembered as Tootie Hart) were the most prominent citizens, Neil having gained respect by carrying on his father ' s business and now he owned a chain of filling stations, with head office at Rome City, now a thriving little city. We also saw many residents of Brimfield. It also is quite a little city with a mayor and everything. I learned that Frances Savoie married the mayor and was now the First Lady of Brimfield and quite a socialite. Next my eves fell upon this ticket for speeding. I recall hurrying through Fort Wayne and being stopped by Where is the fire? I turned around and at once recognized Ralph Moore. He said that he had been a state policeman for five years. Remembering that he and Hubert Leatherman had been quite good friends, I inquired what Hubert was doing. He informed me that he was now an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad ' s new streamliner. Hubert also held the office of president of the Chamber of Commerce in Rome City where he lives. Nearing the close of memory album I find this announcement, Rebah Donley married the son of one of Chicago ' s socialites. Along with this is a programme of the stage play, Abe Lincoln in Illinois . One evening I had gone to see this and I happened to meet Rebah and her husband. On the programme it had as head electrician of the play, Morris Frain. We were quite anxious to meet old school acquaintances so we went back- stage. We asked Morris about some of the other members of the class. We learned that two of them had stayed pretty close to home, namely, Paul Ream and Carney Waldron. They published the Brimfield Daily News. Returning again to reality from my journey through Memory Lane, I realized that the embers were slowly dying; that the members of the Class of ' 40, all being successful both in the business and social world, had been accounted for; and that I should leave my memories until another dreary day. Page sixteen

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£ % f 1 Jack Biddle John Bloomfield Claude Flint Bob Prick Ernest Gard Mary Frances Groh Evert Gulick Phyllis Huffman Jean Hayes Betty Johnston Betty Joslin Nora Krotzer Arlene Morrison Dick Potee Harold Rawles Ruth Ream Mary Lou Rice Bob Schermerhorn Jo Ann Schlotterback John Surface J u N I O R S Page eighteen JUNIOR PLAY PROFESSOR, HOW COULD YOU What, in college? Yes, that ' s where we are. And to Vicky ' s dismay she finds that she wishes very earnestly that she was else- where. After throwing a bottle of ink at the handsome professor in class that day she has come to his grandparents ' home, with whom he lives, to apologize to him. While there she takes part in a plot to get the professor married so that he can become dean of the col- lege. Grandma gets all the prospects together at a dinner party. Vicky and John are also there. The girls try hard to catch the pro- fessor that night, but fail, so Grandpa decides to play his cards. By telephone calls he influences the three girls into thinking that they are to elope with Keats the next night. And what an eloping party! Three girls and one man. John, dressed as Lulu, his deserted wife, comes to his rescue with three of the neighbors ' children, whom he has adopted. All are dumb- founded. Valerie, the Southern gal, decides to stick to the college boys. Tootsie will be well taken care of by Boggins, the butler, and John (now reinstated as a man) finds that he needs Priscilla as his wife. After they have left, the professor finds that he will have no one but Vicky for his wife, even though she is a little spitfire.